Custom camera view Swift iOS 8 iPhone Xcode 6.1

Question

I would like use camera in my iPhone inside of View. I don\'t want use typical full screen camera view, but my own.

For example I would like have a square 200x200 at the

Answer 1

An example of how you can add a cameraOverlayView to create a 200x200 square viewing window at the center of the screen:

@IBAction func takePhoto(sender: AnyObject) {

    if !UIImagePickerController.isSourceTypeAvailable(UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.Camera){
        return
    }

    var imagePicker = UIImagePickerController()
    imagePicker.delegate = self
    imagePicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.Camera;

    //Create camera overlay
    let pickerFrame = CGRectMake(0, UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarFrame.size.height, imagePicker.view.bounds.width, imagePicker.view.bounds.height - imagePicker.navigationBar.bounds.size.height - imagePicker.toolbar.bounds.size.height)
    let squareFrame = CGRectMake(pickerFrame.width/2 - 200/2, pickerFrame.height/2 - 200/2, 200, 200)
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(pickerFrame.size)

    let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()
    CGContextSaveGState(context)
    CGContextAddRect(context, CGContextGetClipBoundingBox(context))
    CGContextMoveToPoint(context, squareFrame.origin.x, squareFrame.origin.y)
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, squareFrame.origin.x + squareFrame.width, squareFrame.origin.y)
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, squareFrame.origin.x + squareFrame.width, squareFrame.origin.y + squareFrame.size.height)
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, squareFrame.origin.x, squareFrame.origin.y + squareFrame.size.height)
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, squareFrame.origin.x, squareFrame.origin.y)
    CGContextEOClip(context)
    CGContextMoveToPoint(context, pickerFrame.origin.x, pickerFrame.origin.y)
    CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0, 0, 0, 1)
    CGContextFillRect(context, pickerFrame)
    CGContextRestoreGState(context)

    let overlayImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    let overlayView = UIImageView(frame: pickerFrame)
    overlayView.image = overlayImage
    imagePicker.cameraOverlayView = overlayView
    self.presentViewController(imagePicker, animated: true, completion: nil)

}